[BRLTTY] Version 3.7 and text application developers

[Andor Demarteau]

generally I'd say post it on /. and newsforge

On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Samuel Thibault wrote:

 > Hi,
 >
 > With the coming 3.7 version also comes the AtSpi screen driver. One
 > really good point with this is that developers of text applications now
 > have a very easy way to check by themselves how much their applications
 > are readable by brltty (and such tty reader in general): they just need
 > to install the libxaw-dev and at-spi-dev packages, compile brltty,
 > install it (as root or as user), run brltty -b xw -x as, and run their
 > applications in gnome-terminal, the reading shows up in the brltty
 > window.
 >
 > This should get documented somewhere and very well advertised, but
 > where? I'd say that brltty's README files are not sufficient for this,
 > since developers can't divine that they should checkout brltty and read
 > documentation. A simple tutorial webpage whose URL being announced on
 > popular news sites could be enough, though.
 >
 > What are people's opinion about this?
 >
 > Regards,
 > Samuel
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